Biography of Robert R. Prechter, Jr.

Robert R. Prechter, Jr., CMT, is founder and president of Elliott Wave International, the world’s largest independent financial forecasting firm. He has been writing market commentary since 1976. In 1984, Bob set a record in the options division of the U.S. Trading Championship with a real-money trading account. In December 1989, Financial News Network (now CNBC) named him "Guru of the Decade." Bob served for nine years on the national Board of the Market Technicians Association and in 1990-1991 served as its president. During the 1990s, he expanded his firm to provide round-the-clock analysis on global financial markets. Bob has written 13 books on finance, beginning with Elliott Wave Principle in 1978, which predicted a 1920s-style stock market boom. His 2002 title, Conquer the Crash - You Can Survive and Prosper in a Deflationary Crash and Depression, was a New York Times best-seller. In 1999, Bob received the CSTA’s first annual A.J. Frost Memorial Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Development of Technical Analysis. In 2003, Traders Library granted him its Hall of Fame award.

Prechter’s current interest is a new approach to social science, which he outlined in Socionomics—the Science of History and Social Prediction (1999-2003). This two-book set presents a theory of endogenously regulated social mood and its manifestation in social action. In July 2007, The Journal of Behavioral Finance published “The Financial/Economic Dichotomy: A Socionomic Perspective,” a paper by Prechter and his colleague, Dr. Wayne Parker. Prechter has made presentations on his socionomic theory to the London School of Economics, Georgia Tech, MIT, SUNY and academic conferences. He recently created the Socionomics Institute, which is dedicated to explaining socionomics, and he funds the Socionomics Foundation, which supports academic research in the field.

Prechter attended Yale on a full scholarship. He is a member of the Shakespeare Fellowship, the Shakespeare Oxford Society and the Triple Nine Society.

Robert Prechter
Executive Director, Socionomics Institute
www.socionomics.net
President, Elliott Wave International
World-Class Market Analysis Since 1979
www.elliottwave.com

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